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Harper High School reports 64% truancy rate

Education Daily Wire Aug 1, 2021

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The truancy rate at Harper High School fell to 64 percent during the 2019-20 school year, according to a Education Daily Wire analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The school's average daily attendance rate was 94 percent.

Students are considered chronically truant if they miss five percent of school days or more per year without acceptable excuses. The City Of Chicago SD 299 saw a chronic truancy rate of 22 percent during the 2019-20 school year, while the statewide rate was 10 percent.

The school enrolled 48 students in the 2019-20 school year, and average daily attendance was at 94 percent for the year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. The average daily rate of attendance across the state was 95 percent.

Harper High School chronic truancy rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016833210
20171003411
2018983111
2019923313
2020642210

Harper High School daily attendance rates 5-year trend

YearSchoolDistrictState
2016869494
2017819394
2018859394
2019879394
2020949595

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